Mitten.



PATENTBD MAR. 17, 1903.

W. S. LODGE.

' MITTEN.

APPLICATION IILBD JAN. 2, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

wn'fizssas UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILLIAM S. LODGE, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.722,863, dated March 17, 1903.

Application filed January 2, 1903. Serial No. 137,435. (No model.)

siding in the city and county of Albany, State of New York, (my post-office address being No.

259 State street, in said city,) have invented a new and useful Mitten, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in coverings for the handgloves and mittens; and the object of my invention is to provide a mitten adapted for use in polishing stoves, dusting furniture, &c., and so constructed and arranged that a renewed surface may be provided when desired. I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan with parts turned over, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of my invention.

Similar letters'refer to similar parts throughout both views.

My mitten is provided with a back-piece A and a palm-piece B, which may be provided with a contracted space for the thumb at C by sewing the pieces A and B together or in any other suitable manner near the left side of the mitten, providing a space within which the thumb will enter when the mitten is placed on the hand, and thereby form'a means for assisting in holding the mitten on the hand. If desired, fingers may be made in the mitten, although that is not necessary.

To the palm-piece B, which is that portion of the mitten adjacent to the palm of the hand when the hand' is placed within the mitten, I secure, preferably by sewing along the edges to the piece B, a series of renewable surfaces D, E, F, and G. I do not limit myself to the number or to the manner of securing these pieces to the mitten. It is, however, preferable to arrange the adjacent pieces in connection with the piece to which it is attached, so that the threads or fastenings by which it is secured may be disengaged for the purpose of removing the piece when desired. To arrange for this,- I show in Figs. 1 and 2 the adjacent pieces extending one beyond the other, so that the outside piece stands beyond all of the others, this in order that the piece D may be sewed to the piece B, as shown, by the stitches d; the piece E sewed to the piece D, as shown, by the stitches e; the piece F sewed to the piece E, as shown, by the row of stitches f, and the piece G'sewed to the piece F, as shown, by the stitches g. The row of these pieces is in the portion of the piece that extends beyond the next adjacent piece and is therefore exposed. and the threads easily seen and cut for the purpose of removing when are used,they may be thus exposed and easily disengaged. I preferably construct these removable pieces or surfaces of a cloth having a soft wooly surface, which may be usedfor dusting or rubbing ahighly-polished surface 6 5 without scratching or marring the same; but of course I do not limit myself to the material with which the mitten is constructed. If desired, I may place adjacent surfaces upon the back of the mitten, as well as on the front,

so that it may be turned, and in that way provide for renewable surfaces. It is apparent that as constructed when one of the surfaces becomes worn to too great an extent to be useful or becomes so soiled that it is desirable to remove it the threads by which it is secured to the adjacent surface may be out and raveled out and a new surface presented for use.

This mitten trade.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A mitten, consisting of a back portion and a palm portion, stitched together; a re- 85 ceptacle therein for the thumb with a series of renewable surfaces, with means for securing each of said surfaces to the next adjacent thereto and the first of said surfaces to the palm portion of the mitten in such a 0 manner that the fastenings shall be exposed and readily disengaged.

2. A mitten provided with renewable surfaces, a means for securing said surfaces together in such a manner that they can be 5 separately removed and thus present a new surface for use when desired.

Signed by me at Albany, New York, this 10th day of December, 1902.

WILLIAM S. LODGE.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK W. CAMERON, LOTTIE PRIOR.

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